The new report, released late Sunday night by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change indicates that nations need to collectively bring carbon emissions down to zero within the next 30 years.
Even the UK and China—economies which are leading the way in terms of reducing carbon intensity—are not doing enough to meet the 2 degree target, the newest report says.
Violent video game play by adolescents is associated with increases in physical aggression over time, according to a new meta-analysis.
A group of industrial chemicals humans started banning decades ago could cause many of the world’s orca whale populations to collapse over the next century, an alarming new study has found.
A new study reports finds that in Europe, 10 major auto manufacturers produced diesel cars, sold between 2000 and 2015, that generate up to 16 times more emissions on the road than in regulatory tests.
A new research suggests a 2ºC (3.6ºF) rise in global temperatures could melt more than a million square kilometers (386,000 square miles) of ice if the temperatures are sustained long enough.
For the first time, researchers have found evidence of tiny particles of carbon, typically created by burning fossil fuels, in placentas.
Scientists that studied the Western Canada’s permafrost, which is more ice-and sediment-rich than others, discovered that this permafrost meltwater contains sulfuric acid.
The tank of a Boeing 747 holds over 200,000 liters (52,000 gallons) of kerosene when full — about as much fuel as 4,000 small cars.
The carcasses of 87 elephants have been discovered near a Botswana protected sanctuary, killed and stripped for their tusks.
More than a quarter (1.4 billion) of the world's adult population were insufficiently active in 2016, putting them at greater risk of disease according to the first study to estimate global physical activity trends over time.
Arctic sea ice isn't just threatened by the melting of ice around its edges, a new study has found: Warmer water that originated hundreds of miles away has penetrated deep into the interior of the Arctic.
Without dramatic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions, most of the planet's land-based ecosystems - from its forests to the deserts and tundra - are at high risk of 'major transformation' due to climate change.
Chinese and US researchers has found a link between air pollution and human cognitive decline. The study consisted of carrying out math and verbal testing of 25,000 people living in 162 counties in China.
The study shows that in 2016, nearly 3 million deaths globally were attributed to alcohol use, including 12 percent of deaths in males between the ages of 15 and 49.
